Robert Burns -- Victoria Embankment Gardens, City of Westminster, London, UK
N 51° 30.510 W 000° 07.314
30U E 699720 N 5710302
A Robert Burns quote incised in the base of his memorial statue
Waymark Code: WMRY88
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/21/2016
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A quote from famed Scottish Robert Burns is incised in the base of his memorial statue in the Victoria Embankment Gardens.
This statue of Rabbie Burns, known in Scotland simply as the Bard, sculpted by Scottish sculptor Sir John Robert Steell, stands in a place of honor in the lush Victoria Embankment Gardens in the City of Westminster, London.
Burns is wearing the usual clothes of a Scottish peasant and seems to be caught in the act of writing a poem. The statue is mounted on a base of red granite which is inscribed as follows:
"ROBERT BURNS
1759-1796
The poetic genius of my Country found me at the Plough -- and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue; I tuned my wild, artless notes as She inspired."
Address:
Victoria Embankment Gardens
City of Westminster
London
UK
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